Scores of meteors near the bowl of the Little Dipper, in a 10 to 12 minuteexposure by A. Scott Murrell during the 1966 Leonid storm. He used a 50-mm f/1.9lens and Tri-X film in a camera tracking the stars at New Mexico State UniversityObservatory. Source: Sky & Telescope, November 1995, p. 30.

These images were photographed during the storm of 1966 by
James W. Young from Table Mountain, California.
Table Mountain Observatory is at an elevation
of 7500 feet in southern California and is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The 3 minute exposures were taken with Kodak Plus-X 35mm film using a Zeiss-Ikon camera,
with a 35mm f/2 wide-angle lens, using a simple camera tripod. Photo's courtesy TMO/JPL/NASA.

The Leonid storm as seen from Kitt Peak National Observatory on November 18, 1966.
Four images are given
here. Photo's courtesy AURA/NOAO/NSF [Conditions of use].

BEING BORN DURING THE 1966 STORM (NOVEMBER 17, 1966)

"Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did
fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove." - From: Cormac Mc Carthy,
"Blood Meridian" (1985).